Smokeydope
@Smokeydope@lemmy.world
- Comment on William Shatner's TekWar is the technological future of crap 1 month ago:
Here’s a link for civvie11’s review or tekwar for anyone who hasn’t seen this pinnacle of entertainment.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 2 months ago:
Just get the biggest computer monitor you can afford
- Comment on CFCs 2 months ago:
I wonder how many people will see this and not know its a quote from Futurama
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 2 months ago:
I think vr is cool but it would definitely be a novelty thing that would be played with for a while then put away and rarely touched again.
I wonder how many occulus rifts are collecting dust right now
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 2 months ago:
Just a friendly reminder that mineclone2 exist.
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 3 months ago:
Also good piracy requires understanding torrenting and navagating the 7 seas with a vpn. My parents LOVE to tell all their friends and family how I can magically get any tv show or movie for 5$ a month without all that subscription crap which gets their hopes up and I have to gently let them down that it requires a bit more computer knowhow than the average person has.
If you think you can properly educate people on safely torrenting be my guest but for most people who have neither the time or desire to learn computer nerd stuff instead of just coughing up dollars go for it!
- Comment on Plex for books? 3 months ago:
Koreader has a plugin to sync with calibre local server and its a REALLY good ereader software
- Comment on More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices 3 months ago:
I really like what explainingcomputers did for their pi4 build, where they basically convert a m.2 SSD into a big usb thumb drive with a simple metal enclosure. Check it out, the timestamp you want is 6:25
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. 3 months ago:
Cached webpages are dead Internet archive: 👀
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 3 months ago:
Please for the love of god avoid buying a real mp3 player with a metal shell, become a linux nerd, install yt-dlp, and run this command in the terminal
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o “%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s” MUSIC-PLAYLIST-URL-LINK
It also totally doesn’t work on other music websites like bandcamp. - Comment on Smokey's Simple Guide To Search Engine Alternatives 3 months ago:
Thank you! Apologies for the mistake, it has now been corrected to .ltd.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 4 months ago:
Follow the damn train, CJ!
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 4 months ago:
People whine about the same thing over and over and over, somehow acting shocked and outraged when microsoft does each month what its been doing for decades. Make their product somehow even more shitty and erode their customers experience so they can sell you the same product with a new paintjob. Big tech sucks, they want to squeeze you dry for every nickel you ever owned, and your private information too. Its sold to anyone who wants including your government and they don’t even bother storing it securely. You know this. I know this. Even the average non tech person knows this. We’ve all known it for a very long time now.
Don’t like it? Too bad, not changing any time soon. Kind of just have to accept microsoft cuckery if its for your work. For personal use though theres always the option to switch to linux, start using open source software, and get a new email through a public acess unix server like tilde.team
But no, theres always some excuse lazy and stubborn people unwilling to compromise have, to not do any of that either. Cause that one videogame you really like doesn’t work on linux cause shitty anticheat, or you think you need that one adobe product that does have open source alternatives but aren’t as good as a corporate product, or your online accounts are already tied to gmail/outlook and it would be too much work to switch it all over to a new email. Options exist, people just don’t want to take them up because they can’t stand being inconvinenced or relearning their computer software.
So I have no more sympathy for people who willingly use windows or outlook or youtube or any corporate product and then wonder why that product continues to get worse while they charge you more money for it + a subscription now.
Sorry for the 5 paragraph essay, I guess im just tired of seeing the /technology outrage circlejerk about this weeks episode of ‘corporate products are shit and getting shittier by the day’
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 4 months ago:
Katie I think we need some black bars over that cake
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 4 months ago:
Wait what I just thought this was another round of whining and clutching pearls over microsoft stuff being spyware but thats actually messed up, theres no way thats not a HIPPA violation
- Comment on Go on, just one more crevice. 4 months ago:
Glad to see that the isekai industry is booming and reviving tourism to these places
- Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit? 5 months ago:
This also seems to have the effect of people getting less salty at being down voted, on reddit I noticed the trend of people verbally expressing salt at even a single down vote editing their whole comment to go “and to the brainlet sheeple soyjack who down voted me I’d like you to know yada yada”
Here I notice less people throwing a verbal tantrum over the idea not everyone likes their opinion. Whenever I get the occasional down vote barrage at a spicy opinion I think “ah well can’t win em all, guess maybe my opinion might be a little shit” not “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU YOU TROGLODYTES”, well okay maybe its the second one 1/6th of the time for a few minutes I reserve the right to get salty at petty bullshit on Thursdays and Saturdays 7-3
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 5 months ago:
Nickelodeon gave Fred their own TV show+movie and YouTube bankrolled some popular creators to make a few YouTube red originals, that’s about as far as I can think of
- Comment on I don't know how to title this 5 months ago:
The cat version of sitting down on the toilet only to find out the hard way that the seat is up
- Comment on What a steal 5 months ago:
They came from one of the prototype layers of hell
- Comment on What a steal 5 months ago:
Probably a piece, those false teeth probably cost a buck or two a piece and then factoring in the time and effort to either chisel out or melt a cavity into them for the teeth to go into
- Comment on Hey, Asimov. Bite me. 5 months ago:
Image Rea image of DharmaCurious collecting —skin— resources for his artisian homestead
- Comment on No nut November is finally over but... 5 months ago:
Whoever came up with don’t dump December is trying to get people to win the darwin award: impaction edition. Sounds like a psyops cooked up over at 4chan
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 5 months ago:
Water purifier - clean water is almost essential for health
Fire Axe - for fire wood collection as well as wood based structures for shelter and defense. Also it is a decent weapon that takes relatively little skill to effectively wield.
German Shepard - loyal companionship, will instinctively assist in protection/attacking and could be trained to track game
Body armor - reduces risk of infection through scratches to body as well as mild protection against various weapons.
- Comment on on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see? 5 months ago:
- Comment on yes you too 5 months ago:
POV: you’ve just done DMT and stared at a clock
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
I’ve had good success with FairEmail its open source and on Fdroid appstore but google made it so it will only work if you download through the play store which is BS.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 5 months ago:
Can you please link a good guide on ripping the drm out?
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
Would you mind informing me what was that remote but well paying job?
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago: